News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
LUXURY ON WHEELS.
Mrs. Geo. III. Pullman's Fine Coach
in which she Travels.
[Flom the Philadelphi. Press. !

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/ Mrs. George Il. Pullman, the wife OF
the Pullman Palace Car Prince, has ar.
+ rived at her Long Branch cottage. Hel
] husband is on his way home from Eu-
rope and is expected to reach here on
! Sunday. After that the Pullmans will
! do considerable entertaining here dur
ing the season. Mrs. Pullman came in
! private car, accompanied by several
! Chicago ladies and by her children.
! This magnificent car is sidetracked here,
so that whenever she should be SO dis
posed she can journey with comfort to
( any of the other summer resorts. A
! great many seem to believe that the lady
travels about with a train of cars, but,
rs a matter of fact, she only has this
! coach. 1t is a comparatively new one,
and party of ten or fifteen can live in
it a. comfortably as they could in the
/ Pullman cottage here. At the rear en-
trance to the car is Il reception room.
/ The decorations of it are magnificent
and are of an Oriental character In
one corner there is an elegant desk, and
arranged about the room are a lot of up
right chairs and lounge. A secret re-
cess is in one of the walls, and access to
it is obtained by touching a spring, by
which the wall is transformed into an
elaborately carved sideboard filled with
the finest wines and liquors. Some of
Mr.. Pullman's cognac cost him over $50
q quart, and is imported by himself di-
rectly from France. He has brandies
and whiskeys that are half a century
old, and people who have enjoyed his
cigars after an evening banquet say that
they are simply delightful to contem-
plate. Mr.. Pullman buys the most ex-
pensive obtainable, and they are made
according to his directions. Then they
are taken and wrapped in leaves of diff
ferent fiavors, and kept at least a year
before used. His own particular cigar
is wrapped in orange leaves.
Immediately back of this reception
room which have inst described is the
drawing room of the car. 1t occupies
nearly one-t third of the space. Of course,
it is beautifully furnished, and in it are
stationary piano and n stand of music.
Nearly every evening while Mrs. Pull
man is travelling there is music. Her
twin sons, who have just attained their
twelfth year, play delightfully."- on the
violin, and most of the time their moth
er accompanies them on the piano. She
is an excellent pianist, and while the
car is rattling along at the rate of mile
a minute the mother and the two chill
dren are enjoying themselves over their
melodies with as much comfort as if they
were in the parlor of their handsome
residence in Chicago. Lending from
this drawing room are the sleeping
apartments, and then come the dining
room and kitchen. Two cooks, butler,
two walters, a chambermaid, and two
ladies' maids always accompany Mrs.
Pullman.
A new car, said to be the most mag
nificent that has ever been constructed
by tho Pullman Company, has just been
completed for the family's use. With
the interior furnishings, its cost is said
to have been $150,000. This is the
twelfth season that Mrs. Pullman has
spent at Long Branch, and her twin
boys were born here. In commemora
ton of that event she was very anxious
to come here in her new car, but owing
to Mr. Pullman's prolonged absence
abroad she could not do so, for it is not
to be used until her husband has thor
oughly inspected it. She herself has
passed her approval upon it, but Mr..
Pullman's practical eye may discover
several things wanting, and the car re-
mains in the works at Chicago until he
can find time to go out to see it.